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Fitchburg Savings Bank. General Kimball was Connor & Co., and was here engaged when the married July 15, 1851, to Almira M. Lesure ; they charter of the Order of Unity was secured largely have three children. through his efforts. Of this order he became supreme secretary at the age of twenty-two. He has also been closely identified with other fraternal orders, including the Ancient Order of United Work- men, the Iron Hall, Tonti, Royal Conclave Knights and Ladies, High Court of Independent Order of Foresters, the Knights of Pythias, the Massachu- setts Fraternal Endowment Congress, and the New England Indemnity Association. He is a member of the executive committee of the National Frater- nal Congress. His method of keeping the books of the Order of Unity has the distinction of having been adopted by numerous other orders as the
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KIMBALL, LEONARD MORONG, M.D., was born in Amherst, N.H., April 18, 1848. His early .educa- tion was acquired in Nashua, N.H. After leaving school and until 1875 he was engaged in mercantile business in Boston. In 1876 he began the study of medicine in Nashua with Dr. Charles S. Collins, and the same year entered the Boston University School of Medicine. Continuing his medical studies in New York and in Cincinnati, O., he graduated from the Pulte Medical College in March, 1880. For two years thereafter Dr. Kimball was associated in practice with Dr. William M. Murphy, in Coving- ton, Ky., attending special courses of lectures at the college and the Cincinnati Hospital. In 1882 he removed to Boston, and has since practised here. He is a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society and of the Boston Medical and Gynæcological Societies. He has been prominently identified with various fraternal beneficiary organizations as medical adviser and examiner.
KIMBALL, SAMUEL A., M.D., son of John H. Kim- ball, of Bath, Me., was born in that city Aug. 28, 1857. His general education was begun in the Bath High School, continued at Phillips (Andover) Academy, where he spent one year, and at Yale College, from which he graduated A.M. in 1879. Then he took a course in the Harvard Medical School, graduating M.D. in 1882, and studied a year in the Boston University School of Medicine, graduating therefrom M.D. in 1883. He began practice in Melrose, and three years later, in Sep- tember, 1886, he moved to Boston, where he has since been established. He is a member of the International and the Boston Hahnemannian Asso- CARLOS W. KIMPTON. ciations, and of the Massachusetts and Boston simplest and most practical. He is associated with House, a summer resort at Abenakis Springs, P.Q. Homeopathic Medical Societies. He has been a his father in the management of the Abenakis frequent contributor to medical journals.
KIMPTON, CARLOS W., son of Rufus G. and Mary E. (Bodie) Kimpton, was born in Stanstead, Can ada, June 12, 1867. Coming to Boston when a lad, he attended the public schools here, and subse- quently took a course in the Stanstead Wesleyan College, from which he graduated in 1884 with the highest honors. At the age of seventeen he en- tered the employ of the Paine Furniture Company as book-keeper, where he remained three years. Then he took a position with the house of G. T.
KIMPTON, EDWIN SEWELL, M.D., son of John and Eliza (Fowler) Kimpton, was born in Stanstead, Canada, April 8, 1857. He was educated in the local schools, Stanstead Wesleyan College, and the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1882. He established himself in the Charlestown district, where he has built up a large and impor- tant practice. For the past seven years he has been examining physician for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. He is a member of the Har-
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vard Medical School Association, and of various fraternal orders. Dr. Kimpton was married Sept.
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3, 1884, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Samuel Wilson, of Danville, Canada.
KINGMAN, HOSEA, son of Philip D. and Betsey (Washburn) Kingman, was born in Bridgewater, Mass., April 11, 1843. After his early training in the public schools, he attended Bridgewater Academy, then Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N.H., and entered Dartmouth. When the Civil War broke out he left college and enlisted in Com- pany K, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. He was mustered into service Sept. 22, 1862, and accompanied his regiment to Newbern, N.C. In December, 1862, he was detailed on signal service, and went to Port Royal, S.C., thence to Folly Island, Charleston harbor. On June 22, 1863, he was mustered out of the service, and returning to college he made up his junior work during his senior year, and was graduated with his class in 1864. He studied law with William Latham, with whom, after his admission to the bar, he went into partnership under the firm name of Latham & Kingman. When Mr. Latham retired (1871) Mr. Kingman retained the business, and is now in prac- tice alone. In January, 1887, he began his term as district attorney, which office he resigned upon being appointed to the metropolitan sewerage
commission, of which board he is now chairman. He is a trustee of the Plymouth County Pilgrim His- torical Society, of the Bridgewater Savings Bank, and of Bridgewater Academy. He received the appointment of special justice of the First District Court of Plymouth county Nov. 12, 1878. He was elected commissioner of insolvency in 1884, and every year after until this was prohibited by his election as district attorney. He is a prom- inent member in the order of Free Masonry. Mr. Kingman was married in Carver on June 23, 1866, to Miss Carrie, daughter of Hezekiah and Deborah (Freeman) Cole. Of this union is one child, Agnes C. Kingman.
KINGMAN, RUFUS ANDERSON, M.D., was born in Boston June 29, 1859. He was educated in the , public schools, graduating from the grammar and English high schools in 1873 and 1876 respec- tively, and in the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated M.D. in 1882. After serving two years in the City Hospital and the Boston Lying-in Hospital, he was abroad eight months studying his profession at Vienna and Prague. Re- turning in 1883, he has since been in private prac- tice in Boston. He is physician for diseases of women to the Boston Dispensary, and the St. Eliza- beth's Hospital, and to the Carney Hospital out- patients department. He is also visiting physi- cian to the Massachusetts Home for Intemperate Women. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He has contributed various papers to medical journals. Dr. Kingman was married on April 17, 1890.
KINSMAN, EDGAR OSGOOD, was born in Cam- bridge April 6, 1856. After passing through a regular course of instruction in the schools of that city, graduating at the high school in 1874, he entered the Boston Dental College in 1877. Finish- ing his studies there and receiving the degree of D.D.S., he was a student with Dr. R. R. Andrews, in Cambridge. After practising with him for four years, he opened an office independently. Dr. Kinsman is a member of the Massachusetts Dental Society (and its present secretary), of the New England Dental Society, and an honorary member of the New Hamp- shire State Dental Society. He was chairman of the executive committee and librarian of the New England Dental Society for three years, and was then chosen secretary, which office he now hokls.
KNIGHT, FREDERICK IRVING, A.M., M.D., was born in Newburyport May 18, 1841. He graduated
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from Yale in the class of 1862, and then began the study of medicine, which he continued until the spring of 1867, first at the United States Hospital, New Haven, then in the Harvard Medical School, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1866, and finally in New York city. For a year, from April, 1864, he held the position of senior house-physician at the Boston City Hospital. In the spring of 1867 he left New York to become associated in practice with Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, of Boston, with whom he was in partnership until 1879. Meanwhile he held appointments in the Boston Dispensary, in the Carney Hospital, and in the City Hospital. These he relinquished in the summer of 1872 to establish a special clinique in laryngoscopy at the Massa- chusetts General Hospital. In 1871-2 Dr. Knight spent a year in Europe, studying in Vienna and Berlin. While in Paris in May, 1872, he received the appointment of instructor in auscultation, percussion, and laryngoscopy in Harvard Univer- sity. He has always devoted considerable time to the medical school there, and in 1882 was appointed assistant professor of laryngology, and in 1888 clinical professor, - a position which he still holds. In 1880-3 he was associate editor of " Archives of Laryngology," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Dr. Knight is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was president of the American Laryngological Association in 1882, and was president of the American Climatological As- sociation in 1891, a national organization founded in 1883 for the study of climatology, hydrology, and diseases of the respiratory and circulatory organs. He is also a member of the Boston Society for Medical Observation, and is president of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. He is physician to the department for diseases of the throat at the Massa- chusetts General Hospital, and has been a frequent contributor to medical journals of articles upon affections of the throat and chest, and upon clima- tology.
KNIGHT, JOSEPH KING, was born in Newark, O., Sept. 14, 1849. His education was begun in the Newark schools; after graduating from the high school in 1866 he went into a printing-office, and learned a trade which enabled him to work his way through college. In 1872 he graduated from Cor- nell University, in the first class that ever completed a four years' course. For several years after leav- ing college he continued his trade as a printer. Then he entered the office of Dr. H. Leseur, and subsequently associated himself with Dr. R. R. Andrews, of Cambridge, with whom he continues in
practice at the present time. He graduated from. the Boston Dental College in 1883, winning the junior prize and delivering the valedictory addre". In June, 1888, he was elected professor of dent. art and mechanism in that institution, which por tion he now holds. He has been president of the Boston Dental College Alumni Association, is now a member of the New England Dental Society, and for many years has been the librarian of the Massa- chusetts Dental Society. Dr. Knight moved to Hyde Park, Mass., soon after leaving Cornell, marrying the youngest daughter of Dr. Leseur : he still resides in that suburb. He has always taken an active part in church and society affairs, and has held many important positions.
KNOWLES, WILLIAM FLETCHER, M.D., son of William F. Knowles, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 17, 1861. He was educated in the Cambridge public schools, and entering the Harvard Medical School, graduated therefrom in 1885. He then spent two years abroad, studying at Berlin and Vienna. Returning to Boston in 1888, he has since practised his profession in this city. He is now physician to Carney Hospital, in the department of laryngology. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the Suffolk District Society.
L AFORME, VINCENT, was born in Rheine, West- phalia, June 25, 1823, and when ten years old came with his parents to this country. They settled in Boston, and here the father, Anthony Laforme, was engaged in the manufacture of silverware until his death in 1846. Vincent was educated in the Boston public schools, and after his graduation he entered his father's business, in which he has since continued. When a young man he joined the Mas- sachusetts Volunteer Militia, and was an active mem- ber, with the rank of sergeant, until 1848. In 1858 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and is still connected with it. During his membership he has held various impor- tant offices in the organization, and since 1875 has been treasurer and paymaster. In politics he is a Democrat. In May, 1889, he was appointed by Mayor Hart one of the three commissioners of pub- lic institutions, which office he held until April 1, 1891, when he resigned. Mr. Laforme was married in 1845 to Sarah Jane Field, of Boston ; they have nine children. Mrs. Laforme is a descendant of John Sealy, a citizen of Boston in 1776, who left the town with General Howe upon its evacuation at the close of the Siege. He went to Halifax and
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settled there. Two of his sons were in the American army, and after the close of the Revolution remained and settled in the States.
LANGMAID, SAMUEL WOOD, M.D., son of Samuel H. and Dorcas Langmaid, was born in Boston June 26, 1837. He was educated in the Boston public schools ; the Latin School; Harvard College, re- ceiving the degree of A.B. in 1859, and A.M. in 1862; and the Harvard Medical School, M.D. in 1864. He was formerly acting assistant surgeon in the United States army, at another time assistant surgeon in the Marine Hospital service, and later surgeon to the Carney Hospital; and he is now physician to the throat department of the Massa- chusetts General Hospital. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Boston So-
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ciety for Medical Observation, and of other local medical organizations, and he is president of the American Laryngological Association.
LATHROP, JOHN, son of Rev. John P. and Maria Margaretta Lathrop, was born in Boston Feb. 8, 1835. He passed most of his early life in this city, being educated in the public schools, but his ad- vanced studies were pursued at Burlington College, New Jersey, from which institution he graduated in 1853 ; in 1856 he received the degree of A.M. from his Alma Mater. In 1855 he graduated from
the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. After most thorough preparation for the legal pro- fession he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1856,
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beginning his practice in Boston, where he at once opened an office. He soon built up a large clientage in all branches of the law, but his tastes ran to admi- ralty cases, and in 1872 he was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court, where he practised extensively. He served a year in the Civil War as first lieutenant and captain of the Thirty-fifth Mas- sachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and then resigned on account of illness contracted in the service. Judge Lathrop was reporter of decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 1874 until his appointment to the bench of the Superior Court by Governor Ames in 1888. In 1891 he was appointed by Governor Russell a justice of the Supreme Ju- dicial Court. He has also held the position of lec- turer in the Harvard Law School (in 1871 and 1873) ; and in the Boston Law School, in the years 1873, 1880, 1881, 1882, and 1883. Judge Lathrop was married on June 24, 1875, to Miss Eliza Davis, a daughter of Richard and Mary Ann Davis Parker. His home is in Boston.
LAWRENCE, WILLIAM BADGER, son of Samuel Crocker and Carrie R. (Badger) Lawrence, was born in Charlestown Nov. 15, 1856. His early education was acquired in the Boston Latin School.
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He was a Franklin-medal scholar, and was colonel Academy of Shelburne Falls. He studied medi- of the Boston School Regiment 1874-5. From Harvard College he graduated in the class of 1879, and from the Harvard Law School, class of 1882. He began the practice of law in the office of Nathan Morse, and is now at .No. 40 Water street. His work outside of his profession has been largely po- litical and charitable. He was selectman and over- seer of the poor of the town of Medford, where he resides, from 1880 to 1890, and he has served on various local committees of the town. He was of the committee representing the town before the Legislature in the matter of the passage of the met- ropolitan sewerage act, of that to consider the ad- visability of a city charter, and of that (1885-9) to prevent the threatened division of the town. He is also trustee of the Congregational ministerial fund of the First Parish in Medford, and chairman of the parish committee of the fund. He was elected to the lower house of the Legislature of 1891 and again to that of 1892, representing the Eighth Middlesex District. He is a member of the Republican State committee. Mr. Lawrence is a prominent member of the Masonic order : a past master of Mt. Hermon Lodge, past high priest of Mystic Royal Arch Chapter, past thrice illustrious master of Medford Council Royal and Select Mas- ters, junior warden of Boston Commandery Knights Templar, junior warden of Lafayette Lodge of Per- fection, and most illustrious grand master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Mas- sachusetts. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association, and one of the proprietors of the Social Law Library. On Oct. 2, 1883, he was married in Dorchester to Miss Alice May Sears, daughter of Henry and Emily Nickerson Sears ; they have three children : Marjorie, Samuel Crocker, 2d, and Ruth Lawrence.
LEACH, ELBRIDGE CLEMENT, was born in the Jamaica Plain district Dec. 8, 1854. He was edu- cated in the grammar and high schools. He then passed one winter in Para, Brazil, preparatory to taking a course in dentistry, and upon his return home began his dental studies under his father, Dr. E. C. Leach, completing his course in 1874. Since that date he has successfully practised his profession in Boston. He has given especial attention to sur- gical dentistry. Dr. Leach is a member of the Massachusetts Dental Society.
LEACH, ELBRIDGE GARY, was born in Shutesbury, Mass., March 2, 1814. He was educated in the common schools of his own town and the Franklin
cine in Lowell and Boston, and began the practice of dentistry in Ware Village, in the autumn of 1837. Here he remained five months, and then was established in different villages up to 1841. In 1839 he was ordained to preach in New Portland, Me., but, his health breaking down, he was obliged to return to his original profession. Then he moved to Boston, and has since practised in this city. Dr. Leach is an honorary member of the Massachusetts Dental Society, and was its president for a term of two years. He is also an honorary member of the Connecticut Valley Dental Society. He received the degree of D.D.S. from the Pennsylvania Dental College. For two years he lectured in the dental department of Harvard University. He was first married Nov. 20, 1838, to Paulina D., daughter of Nathan Hanson, of New Portland. His second marriage was on July 12, 1846, to Miss Clementine D., daughter of William Witham. Dr. Leach was preceptor of his two sons, William S. and Elbridge C., also of Dr. Waitte, who has been a demonstrator a number of years in Harvard Dental College, Dr. Ezra Taft, of Boston, and many others.
LEATHERBEE, WILLIAM HOLT, son of James W. and Harriet (Wiley) Leatherbee, was born in Bos- ton Oct. 12, 1826. He was educated in the Boyl- ston Grammar and the English High Schools. His first business connection was in 1848, with Jesse Terrill, coal and wood dealer. Next, in 1850, he went with Aaron Guild, who at that time was the oldest lumber-dealer in Boston. Afterwards he succeeded Mr. Guild, and the firm was known as Clark & Leatherbee until 1875, when the present business was formed, under the firm name of W. H. Leatherbee & Son. Mr. Leatherbee is also one of the trustees of the Franklin Savings Bank, and treasurer of the Little Kanawha Lumber Company, of Parkersburg, W. Va., of which his son, George H., is general manager. He is a member of the Old School Boys' Association. Mr. Leatherbee was married Oct. 25, 1848, to Miss Mary Jane Millard ; they have one daughter, Anne M. Olm- stead, and two sons, Charles W., of the Boston firm of W. H. Leatherbee & Son, and George H. Leatherbee, of the Parkersburg, W. Va., lumber company.
LEE, WILLIAM H., son of William and Susan (('larke) Lee, was born in Boston March 4, 1841. His early education was attained in the old Adams School on Mason street, and in a Jamaica Plain public school. Before he had completed the regu-
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lar course he was obliged, by stress of circumstances, to leave school and learn a trade. After some time spent as an apprentice to a plumber, he found a
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place as an office boy in the shop of Joseph L. Ross, school furniture manufacturer. From this humble position he was soon promoted to a clerkship, and subsequently he became book-keeper, and then salesman. Here he remained until 1866, employ- ing his leisure time in study, when he was obliged by ill health to relinquish all work for a while. Upon his return from an extended trip in the West with health restored, he was asked by James C. Tucker, then superintendent of public buildings, temporarily to fill a vacancy in that department occasioned by the death of a clerk. This was the beginning of a long and successful career in the city's service. Mr. Lee continued as clerk in Mr. Tucker's office until 1871 ; then he was appointed chief clerk in the newly created department for the survey and inspection of buildings. He served in that capacity, organizing the office and building up a complete set of records, until 1875, when he was elected by the city council clerk of committees. This important position he held for ten years, being unanimously re lected each year. When, in 1885, the board of police for the city of Boston was es- tablished by legislative act, he was appointed by the governor one of three members; and in 1889 he was reappointed for the full term of five years.
Mr. Lee is a member of the Masonic order, thirty- second degree ; of the Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand; of the Knights of Pythias, a past grand chancellor; the Red Men, a past grand sachem ; the Royal Arcanum ; the United Friends, a past imperial councillor ; and the Good Fellows. He is also one of the National Lancers, and a member of the Bostonian Society and the Athletic Club. He was connected with the old Mercantile Library Association when it was in its prime, join- ing in 1867. For two or three years he was on the board of directors, and for a longer period had charge of the department of amusements, in which were given some of the most famous amateur dra- matic performances of the time.
LEIGHTON, GEORGE E., was born in Pembroke, Me., Feb. 12, 1850. He learned his trade of builder in Maine, and coming to Boston worked at it here until 1875, when he formed a copartner- ship with Isaac F. Woodbury, under the firm name of Woodbury & Leighton. Their business prem- ises on Malden street comprise a large workshop and spacious lumber-yard, equipped with every requisite for conducting mason and carpenter work of every description, and they give employment to from two hundred to five hundred expert workmen.
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notably the New Public Library on Copley square, the Eliot Church in Newton, St. Stephen's Church in Lynn, the chapel for the St. Paul School in Concord, N.H .; private residences on the Back Bay ; and a large number of mercantile buildings, banks, etc., among them the Lincoln Building on Lincoln street, the Auchmuty Building on King- ston street, occupied by Brown & Durrell, the Jordan Building on the corner of Kingston and Bedford streets, the Boylston Building on the corner of Washington and Boylston streets, the Harvard Medical School, the business house of John H. Pray & Sons on Washington street, and the Farlow Building on State street. The firm are also the owners of the Milford Pink Granite Co. of Milford, Mass., which received the diploma of the Massa- chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association for beauty and fineness of texture of their granite shown at the Seventeenth Exhibition, in 1890. Of this ma- terial the Public Library and the Eliot Church are built. Mr. Leighton is an active member of the Master, Builders' Association and of the Charitable Mechanic Association. He was married in 1872 to Harriet W. Leatherbee.
LEIGHTON, JOHN W., son of Jonathan and Sarah (Knight) Leighton, was born in Eliot, Me., Feb. 26, 1825. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. Coming to Boston in 1843, he learned the trade of a builder here, and he has been in the building business ever since, beginning on his own account in 1854. He has served in the common council five years (1861, 1862, 1863, 1868, and 1869), four of the five a member of. the building committee; and in the lower branch of the Legislature two (1881-2). He was also on the commission for remodelling the State House, in 1880. He is now a director of the Central National Bank, a trustee of the Home Savings Bank and a member of the investment committee, and a director of the Granite Railway Company. On Feb. 19, 1854, he was married in Eliot, Me., to Miss Anaretta Tyler Frye ; they have one daughter, Fannie Leighton.
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